The overtly #antitrans #civilservice SEEN network & its site are 🤮🤮 https://seen-network.uk/posts/2023-07-19-why-is-seen-important-to-me-vii/ It’s also promoted by the UK Cabinet Office

As of today, Sept 1st, 2023, SB14 - the horrendously fascist & transphobic law banning gender-affirming care for minors & punishing parents / doctors who aid them - is going into effect despite an originally accepted temporary pause / injunction.

This. Is. Genocide.

How can you help?

TRANS FOLKS + FAMILIES - Post your #fundraiser for escaping TX, or any way to send funds your way In This Thread & I will boost them!!! <3

ALLIES - Check the thread later to repost funds & pitch in where you can. Spread hope. Every little bit helps! <3

Let's do what we can with what we have now. Together.

#TransCrowdFund #trans #transgender #TXlege #Texas #SB14 #antitrans #transgenocide

Part 2 of a 🧵about #hate.

When I ran for trustee, my signs were defaced with #antivaxx #antisemitic garbage. When I advocated for temporary masks in @OCDSB schools, the threats markedly worsened. For the most part, colleagues were silent.

No outcry. Not even checking in to see if I’m alright.

Weird? Not if you dismiss antisemitism.

I cannot imagine being silent. I would stand up to defend my colleague. In fact, I did, when it came to #antitrans hate. Which resulted in more attacks on me.

Today I learned some hilarious news, and since I can't add it to my honorable mentions on Wikipedia I'll mention it here lol.The #farright / #antitrans / #antilgbt group #GaysAgainstGroomers (GAG) got mad at me, again!

A quick recap, a few months ago I was banned from all vaguely queer-related articles for being biased against hate groups and bigots, despite a year of agreements that my articles and behavior on them were fine (including GAG's article for that matter)... But anyways, GAG got annoyed when I first wrote their article and never really let it go. Most recent example, a few weeks ago, they complained about me and the article.
https://kolektiva.social/@TheTranarchist/110731377906111487

Now, this was superficially useless, ranting about someone who's not allowed to edit the article and has no say in it at this point. But vandals took their complaints to heart and tried to edit the article. This led to a formal discussion, what we call on Wikipedia a request for comment, on whether it should be called far-right and anti-lgbt. The answer, about 20 to 2, was that it is obviously far right and anti-lgbt. Remember, I had no say in that after writing it, the editing community just overwhelmingly agreed with me that it was a good summary of what reliable sources said about them (as it has every other time this has been brought up).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gays_Against_Groomers#RFC_Anti-LGBT,_Right_Wing_in_lede

They apparently didn't take this well, since they just complained again! Not just asking, demanding, their article be taken down on their website. I learned since editors identified it as a source of vandalism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gays_Against_Groomers#If_you_notice_a_large_amount_of_new_IPs_at_this_talk_page,_then%E2%80%A6

https://www.radar.gaysagainstgroomers.com/post/lies-fallacies-and-fabrications-addressing-our-wikipedia-page

They can't bother to spell my username right, when it's right there lol, but that's hardly the only ridiculous error they've got. They say I wrote an article full of lies and it was locked - I wrote an article full of factual statements, consensus of uninvolved editors has always agreed, and it was locked to prevent their fans rewriting the page as PR for them. They are free to provide reliable sources and ask for changes based on them on the article talk page - any reasonable requests for edits to the article will be met.

Going through their points:
1) "we're not far-right/anti-lgbt" - reliable sources and a recent discussions would beg to differ. Doesn't exactly help how they rant about how trans kids don't exist and teaching kids trans exist is grooming based on pseudoscience... A quote, ""Gender-affirming care" for minors must be outlawed and criminalized on a federal level" - I'm one of those scary trannies who started hormones as a minor btw, it's great, only wish I coulda done it sooner, bodily autonomy for the win!
2) "GLAAD says we call people who disagree pedophiles" - Not exactly stunning their defence is "they said that, but actually they're the ones going after children"...
3) "GAG is promoted only by the right wing" - their defense was laughably bad: "yes, but it's not our fault" LMAO
4) "we're working towards federally banning trans care for minors" - they just proudly admit to this. Proudly bragging about trying to strip the rights of a minority group, right....
5) "we have trucks with transphobic slogans" - just admitting to it. I've no clue why so far half of their points are just agreeing...
6) "we supported an Arizona bill that supports forced outing of trans kids to parents" - once again, just proudly admits to it...
7) "Alejandra Caraballo says we spread groomer libel" - A) she did, B) their defense is they're a nonprofit
8-11) Complaints about Imara Jones hypothesizing they're funded by the heritage foundation. They spend 4 sections devoted to complaining and mocking a black trans woman who's done more more for the queer community than GAG ever has, who they call a "Child mutilation and gay conversion therapy advocate". Transmisogynoir much?

So, apart from listing a bunch of supposedly false accusations they then agree with wholeheartedly, they leave a final conclusion. It both demands Wikipedia serve as their PR and take down an article full of plain factual statements, and also threatens me: "We also invite "TransAnarchist" to reach out and let us know what city they live in so we can drive our Gay truck around and ruin their day. Unlike the pronoun supremacists, we don't get easily offended over everything." First off, feel free to misgender me if you care so much for some reason weirdo. It's the campaigning against bodily autonomy I object to more.

It's kinda stupid they ask for my city, it's on my userpage they screenshotted lol. I'm a born and raised New Yorker! And my solemn New York bitch guarantee? They're free to drive their little van around the village all they want, I'm not gonna waste any effort trying to convince them not to or do anything about it because it'll be funny if they do! It's a big city, and I'm probably not gonna run into them. While they waste their time trying to prove a point, they'll learn in New York we remember stonewall and the black and brown trans women who've fought with everything for rights for all. We've still got many holding the torch. The village, which they talked about driving around, is still the home of many trans people, kids and adults, and trans orgs, many radical and devoted to ending police violence and ensuring trans people have their needs met. So please, please, drive your van through the village! See what happens lol. Maybe the reality check of boos and jeers as you drive around might wake y'all up to how far removed you are from the queer community.

And repeated ad-hominems are not gonna change the Wikipedia article. It's reliably sourced, neutral, and factual - hell in your list of accusations you admitted to most. We are an enclyopedia, not a PR campaign. We don't base things on the opinions of editors but what reliable sources say, be that descriptions or what happened where or who you work with and generally what you're notable for. That's why every Wikipedia article has a full list of references. Don't believe Wikipedia? Check those.

#Santana said some #AntiTrans shit during a show.

And it's sad when a musician you greatly admire turns out to be a complete a-hole bigot.

Fortunately it was Santana, whose music is a bag of bollocks.

It used to boggle my mind how #boomers were mostly socially #liberal in the 60s but mostly socially #conservative today.

Then I read complaints by #BillMaher and totally get it now.

He doesn't get how people on the internet consider him conservative when his views haven't changed.

If your views towards #SocialJustice haven't changed since the 1990s, there is a good chance you are now a social conservative.

Bill Maher is #anti #muslim and #AntiTrans - so the label definitely fits.

I knee this would happen...sadly

#AntiTrans Bigot Calls Police on Mom Who Took Non-Verbal Autistic Son in Women’s Bathroom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU9JiIxiavw

#TheHumanistReport

Cis people now attacked with #transphobe shit

Mensen die een discussie willen voeren, of zeggen dat 'we nodig een discussie moeten voeren,' over een recht van anderen op medische zorg, geven een voorzet voor afschaffing van die medische zorg. Trap er niet in.

#AntiTrans #AntiAbortus #Propaganda

Mensen die een discussie willen voeren, of zeggen dat 'we nodig een discussie moeten voeren,' over een recht van anderen op medische zorg, geeft een voorzet voor afschaffing van die medische zorg. Trap er niet in.

#AntiTrans #AntiAbortus #Propaganda

Er gaat een stuk uit Trouw rondt die waarschuwt tegen de agenda van DeSantis. Er staat een dijk van een anti-transhondenfluitje in: er is geen "legitieme discussie over de reikwijdte van transgenderzorg aan kinderen." Trans kinderen bestaan! Bemoei je niet met de medische zorg van anderen.

De enige twee medische onderwerpen waarom zogenaamd "legitieme discussie" over gevoerd "moet worden" zijn transgenderzorg en abortus. Het is een uiterst rechtse propagandatechniek. Trap er niet in.

#AntiTrans #propaganda #media

I haven't mentioned my work on #Wikipedia in a minute, but now seems like a good time. I'll get into why later. I've mostly been busy with things relating to housing rights in New York. Lots of categorization work. Getting ready to start a housing rights in NY task force. I also cleaned up the #NYPD #SRG article! Been chilling away from trans topics for a minute.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Police_Department_Strategic_Response_Group

But, response-worthy, #GaysAgainstGroomers, the #farright #antilgbt / #antitrans group, has once again publicly gotten mad about me! I learned because their fans are insulting me in the article history. I can't mention this on Wikipedia, since god forbid I publicly acknowledge the harassment I receive from these groups or defend myself, but I can mention it here lol. It's honestly kinda sad, they've been publicly complaining about the article for months, but reliable sources and our NPOV and FRINGE policies won't let them define the narrative the way they want. My work there wasn't even really criticized in my ban case, the one admin who said it might have NPOV issues praised my ability to respond to them!

Remember, I was banned from all topics vaguely related to queer people for being biased towards hate groups, even though my articles have almost all had explicit consensuses they aren't biased at all - And funny enough, before and even now months after my ban, hate groups have complained their articles are biased, and editors won't change them. Schrodinger's bias, so apparent I need a ban, so non-existent articles that I wrote are largely stable.

Funny pics:
The original tweet

https://twitter.com/againstgrmrs/status/1680969013956935684

P.S. Thanks for the shout-out logan! Right back at ya <3

Someone begging Elon Musk to buy wikipedia

Someone complaining to Jimmy Wales

@KinoGhoul

I'm going to watch the vid you posted in a minute.

By the way, have you heard of this #antitrans wanker #AbigailShrier ?

Anyway if you are in [the] states Ohio, Tennessee, or Kentucky, now would be a good time to prepare and make sure that you’re safe, because if this law is upheld and goes to the Supreme court level, this could affect all of us.”

#AntiTransHate #AntiTransCourtRuling #AntiTrans

As a trans person who recently fled Ohio (along with my family), this doesn’t surprise me, but it still terrifies me. But just like Erin says, this could effect more than just people in those states.

by #AbbyVesoulis in #MotherJones:

"Saturday’s ruling is the first time a federal court of appeals has allowed a ban on gender-affirming care to take effect. The ruling deviates from other recent federal rulings on this type of care. As my colleague Madison Pauly recently noted, a federal judge struck down an Arkansas law banning gender-affirming care for kids in late June, pointing to evidence that 'the prohibited medical care improves the mental health and well-being of patients.' Judges in Florida, Indiana, and Kentucky have also granted temporary injunctions in the last few weeks that will keep some kinds of gender-affirming medical care available to trans minors while court challenges continue to progress. (The Sixth US Circuit Court of Appeals, which just allowed Tennessee’s ban to temporarily take effect, said Saturday it will issue a final ruling on the pending Kentucky ban when it renders its final appeals decision on Tennessee’s ban.)"

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/07/tennessee-ban-gender-affirming-care-trans-minors-hormones/

#Tennessee #GenderAffirming #ban #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBT #AntiTrans #hormone #healthcare

by #SarahVogelsong in #VirginiaMercury:

"After an inquiry from the right-wing media outlet Daily Wire this May about two websites listed on a Virginia Department of Health webpage offering resources for LGBTQ youth, internal agency emails indicate Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration took the entire page down, leaving agency employees who oversaw it bewildered."

https://www.virginiamercury.com/2023/07/06/youngkin-administration-removes-webpage-on-lgbtq-resources-for-youth/

#Virginia #GlenYoungkin #DepartmentOfHealth #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBT #AntiLGBTQ #AntiTrans #DailyWire #RightWing

#Trans @tytreports Employee Quits, Condemns @cenkuygur & #AnaKasparian’s #AntiTrans Rhetoric
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk-O_PErl3w

Not sure if it's been making the rounds here but this is what popehat is saying over at BlueSky

Time to pull out the ol block button perhaps

#trans #antitrans #antifascist #deplatform

by #RebeccaGordon in #TomDispatch:

"[T]he attacks against queer people go well beyond banning any discussion of gayness in public schools. We’re also witnessing a national campaign against trans and non-binary people that, in effect, aims to eliminate such human beings altogether, whether by denying their very existence or denying them the medical care they need. This campaign began with a focus on trans youth but has since widened to include trans and non-binary people of all ages."

https://tomdispatch.com/yes-we-have-home-grown-fascists/

#trans #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBT #queer #NonBinary #healthcare #AntiTrans #misgendering #fascists #fascism #genocide

A #longread #article from the #HuffPost about Renton Sinclair, the #Trans son of a former Miss #Illinois and now a prominent #antitrans #influencer.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trans-son-of-anti-trans-influencer-tania-joy-gibson-speaks-out_n_649d7449e4b028e6472f1700

(TW: Discussion of suicide in the article)

#LGBTQ #Writing #Interview

FFS, I just realized that the book I am reading is #antitrans trash written by #jkrowling. Be aware, #robertgalbraith == #jkrowling .